{The President of the Central African Republic has replaced the Christian Prime Minister with a Muslim as part of a peace deal to end deadly violence that has ravaged the country for more than a year.}
Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza on Sunday replaced Prime Minister Andre Nzapayéké with Mahamat Kamoun. Nzapayéké stepped aside to make room for a consensus government, a condition specified in the cease-fire between Séléka rebels and the vigilante anti-Balaka. The deal was signed last month in Brazzaville, in the Republic of the Congo.
Kamoun, 53, is the first Muslim to serve as Prime Minister in the Christian-majority CAR.
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